Rant: Critics in Blue Helmets At the same moment France's culture apparatchik voted to keep Hollywood out, his countrymen were voting very differently with their euros: They made Dreamworks' Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit the top French film two weeks running.

Totalitarian Busybodies Book Reviews: Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, by Anna Funder... After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next, by Jana Hensel...

Warming Linked to Disease Outbreaks With the average global temperatures predicted to rise between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees Celsius by 2100, climate scientists, physicians and others are warning of a possible increase in heat-related deaths and disease outbreaks.

I, T-Shirt The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, by Pietra Rivoli posits that to see what we are sacrificing by embracing protectionism while preaching free markets, Americans need look no further than their closets.

Adaptive Foe Thwarts Counter-IED Efforts Coalition forces are engaged in an ongoing invisible combat in the radio and infrared spectra. Iraqi insurgents have progressed from simple trip wires to infrared devices to set off improvised explosive devices.

Europe-Based NATO Reaches Deep into Asia, Africa U.S. and allied military forces in Europe -- grappling with a lengthy, global war on terrorism -- are expanding their reach far beyond their traditional perimeters, deep into Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.

Plan to Protect U.S. Ports Homes In on Contraband The challenge facing the DHS, importers and the shipping industry is to prevent weapons of mass destruction, would-be illegal immigrants and contraband from entering U.S. ports -- including overland traffic from Canada and Mexico -- without disrupting the flow of goods.